faggot
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8.6
- noun
- /ˈfæɡət/
- Archaic
:
haz de leña
- Turn-of-the-last-century sights along the way: wooden ploughs; faggots stacked high on a man's back, permanently bent; homemade clothes; the modern world a rumor.
A blaze with a love and faggot tree.
- A blaze with a love and faggot tree.
Examples
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The campers used dry faggots to feed the campfire throughout the night.
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Someone, it seemed, had dropped a lighted faggot on the kitchen house floor, and the rushes had caught fire, and the whole building was imperiled.
Fiction book (1993) -
Before leaving, she settled a couple of faggots of wood on the fire and ducked through the flap.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then officers stacked reeds and faggots about his body and set fire to the reeds.
Academic text (2015) -
She appears in a splendid drawing of faggot gatherers of 1851-52 (Fig. 6), the kind of drawing Millet did for sale, not as a study for a painting.
Academic text (2007) -
We collected a pile of faggots to use as fuel for the fire.
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After the storm, they gathered faggots from the forest floor to keep warm.
Synonyms
A bundle of sticks bound together for firewood
Compounds
- Specialized
A decorative sewing method that joins rows of threads or fabric edges in an open pattern
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Etymology
Faggot originally meant a 'bundle of sticks' used for fuel, so think of someone carrying a tied bunch of wood to make a fire.